Would you say that Madvillainy is the best sampled based Hip Hop album of the post golden era of sample driven music?

[Tetris v2.0]

It's like 3 Feet, Paul's Boutique, 36 Chambers, Death Certificate etc

One of those albums that relies heavily on being a collage of different sounds and ideas. I don't think it's been bested since...

 

[Awesome Wells]

It's up there.

But I think that same year, Kanye did a better job with The College Dropout.

Also, 9th Wonder with The Listening, the year before. There were a few projects that I think had doper production with samples. But Madvillainy is definitely in the conversation, for that era.

 

[mrvaughn]

Post Golden Era? Yeah for me it is, but I am biased. Operation: Doomsday also has great samples, and it was just after the Golden Era. Later on you also have…

TBAP
Piñata
We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
Donuts

And Hip Hop Adjacent album; Since I Left You by The Avalanches.

 

[I love Latina women]

@Zero @Lootpack

What y’all think?

 

[Da Spot Is Hot]

I put Piñata over Madvillainy

 

[Sauce Dab]

It's up there.

But I think that same year, Kanye did a better job with The College Dropout.

Also, 9th Wonder with The Listening, the year before. There were a few projects that I think had doper production with samples. But Madvillainy is definitely in the conversation, for that era.

Yeah I think I would have CD over Madvillainy too

 

[Zero]

Best? No.

It’s a great album but there have been plenty of sample based Hip Hop albums since then that have stood the test of time and are up there quality wise and thematically.

What Madvillainy did was make it clear that lyricism that rode the line between “backpack” and gangster had a place and MCs who weren’t part of a huge machine with corporate backing could not only succeed, but be great at rap.

On paper, MF DOOM and Madlib should’ve never created a masterpiece, let alone drawn the audience they did. The average rap fan then and now had/have no idea who Lootpack, Likwit Crew, KMD or Monster Island Czars are, but somehow, the duo of Madvillain became well known through dumb luck and quality that went viral at a time when viral was just becoming a thing.

A masterpiece of an album, but I don’t know if it’s the best in the underground, sample based genre.

Honestly, the best way to sum it up is right here.

 

[Piff Perkins]

In terms of the sheer volume of samples from different genres, sounds, moods etc? It's not only hard to top, I can't think of many noteworthy albums that have even attempted something similar from 2000 onward. That album goes from Sun Ra to Frank Zappa to George Clinton to multiple television themes in between.